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11-10-2008 10:53 PM
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zizzy says:
|quote]Sontag argues that the proliferation of photographic practice has long begun to establish within people a "chronic voyeuristic relation"[1] to the world around them. And that therefore the meaning of all events is somewhat leveled to an unhealthy degree. As she argues, this fosters an attitude of anti-intervention. Within this it's felt that the photographer should leave their subject, whether it be a person or an event, to its own devices while being photographed, regardless of the moral character of the subject. The justification comes in the idea that the resulting photographs will be documents, representations of events already in motion, in the name of truth and enlightenment. Sontag goes even further to say that the individual who seeks to photographically record cannot intervene, and that the person who intervenes cannot then faithfully record, for the two aims contradict each other. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Photography

Just something I'm pondering.
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11-11-2008 7:01 AM
zalisan
You may also ponder Cynthia MacAdams and VII PhotosThe perspectives here are food for thought and the eye.
11-11-2008 7:03 AM
zalisan
http://www.viiphoto.com/index.html and http://www.cynthiamacadams.com/cynthia_bio.html

Apologies, from my end looked like the links didn't take on original comment. Hope this works.
11-11-2008 8:30 AM
abailart
Great clip. Thanks both.
11-20-2008 4:55 AM
balthazarus
powerful images. making one stop and think.
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